Navigated Menu Back Financial Times Financial Times UK 18 Apr 2026 Buttons.Search Options The food crisis to come Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops, argues Adam Hanieh Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE have come to occupy a fa Settings Translate Article Print Share Listen Few 20th-century transformations did more to remake the world than the “Green Revolution”. From the 1950s onwards, new high-yielding crop varieties, synthetic fertilisers, chemical pesticides and large-scale irrigation drove a sharp increase in the output of staple crops such as wheat and rice. In its more celebratory accounts, this transformation pushed back famine and helped support rapid population growth across much of Asia and Latin America. India, one of the key centres of the Green Revolution, more than doubled wheat productio...